Treasure Chest ~ Cricut Imagine Buccaneer, Cricut Sweethearts

Hello Crafty Friends, 

   I can't believe Valentine's day is right around the corner! I love Valentine's day because of my kids. My husband and I are not very big on this holiday we do don't do the big dinner, jewelry, chocolates or flowers. We feel that is what our anniversary is for. However, we do really enjoy showing our kids extra love during this month.

You may have noticed that most of my valentine cards and projects are not very pink, girly, or filled with tons of lace or hearts, this is because all of our kids are boys except for one. (The girly ice cream card is for her.) Today's project is for my oldest son so I decided to go with a Treasure chest. This cut is from the Imagine cartridge Buccaneer. Although I love the cartridge and all of the cartridges I  bought for my imagine, I absolutely HATE my imagine! It has never worked right and it cost a fortune. :( anyway, because of that I cut this out on my explore :)  I found some really great red wood grain paper in my stash, perfect for adding some valentine red into my project and the wood pattern was  prefect for the treasure chest. I love the way the added crinkle ribbon and brads gave it texture.

I'll be adding this project into these challenges:

Cards Tv 3-D: Valentine's Treat Box or Bag

Die cuttin' divas : CH# 252 Love

BBTB2 : Valentine Hearts

Card Recipe:

Cricut Cartridges: Buccaneer (Chest), Sweethearts (Heart Lock)

Paper: Craft Smith: Burgundy Rose

Sentiment: Printed from my computer

Extras: Crinkle Ribbon (Made it myself), We R memory keepers: Brads, Colorbox Chalk ink: Dark Brown

My Very First Mini Album!!

Today I made my very first mini album! I have been wanting to make one for a long time now but was too intimidated to get one done. Well, Mollie over at Cricket's Cricut Creations has a challenge going on to make a mini album and I thought what a perfect time this would be to try my hand at one. Now, I'm not totally happy with how this came out but since it's my first one I'm not going to worry about it too much. ;) I got my instructions from a Video Mary made at Cardz Tv click HERE to see the video.

This album was made for my 7-year-old son.

Here is the front cover with the bow tied.

With the bow untied. His nick name is "X-Ray"

Here is the first pages when you open it up. I am going to be adding to this every once in a while as a surprise for my son. So one day I might fill out the journaling tag and then maybe a few days later I'll add the picture. This way he'll get excited to see if I've added things to it.

These are the next pages. The tag has "See You Later Alligator" stamped on it because it's one of his favorite things to say.

Under that tucked into the strip of polka dot paper is a drawing he made the other day.

These are the same pages but I flipped the tag around. Every once in a while he says some really silly things and I wanted to to have a place I could add one of his funny sayings.

Here is the back flap. The pocket and tag came from the "Sweethearts" cartridge.

Here is the tag when you pull it out.

This is the back side of the album. The orange triangle is a pocket that I plan to fill up with a letter to my son. His older brother made the little charm and hung it from a paper clip.

Here is one full side.

The other full side.

I hope you enjoyed my project and have a great day.

Sweethearts Anniversary Card

This is a card I made for my husband for our anniversary. I meant to post it a few days ago but things have been crazy around here getting ready for school to start then my 3-year-old daughter Sunshine cracked her head open and had to have staples put in so this is the first chance I've had to breathe. :)

This card is a reg A2 sized card, I used the Sweethearts cartridge for the image and my Divine Swirls for the embossing and the sentiment is from My Pink Stamper stamps. It came out way more feminine than I wanted but he still loved it.

Anniversary cards for men are so hard for me to do!!!

I hope you all enjoy and have a great weekend. :)

Made by Momo's Tuesday Challenge- "Girly Affair"

Over at Momo's blog she is having a super cute challenge called "Girly Affair". You can use any cartridge and any cut as long as it's a girly card. This is what I came up with to enter. This nighty is from the Sweethearts Cartridge. I used my Gypsy to weld the image into a shape card. The bottom was cut out twice once in white and again in sheer sparkly vellum. The top was embossed using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder and then I added Stickles over the dots. I tied a ribbon to the front and I was done. This card was really easy and fast and the perfect bridal shower card. I love how this turned out and hope you enjoy is as well. Have a great day!